Does the US military want Afghanistan to get even nastier?
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/08/us-wants-taliban-even-nastier
But not everyone thinks such horrors are an entirely bad thing. Indeed, some within the US war machine have long argued the emergence of a nastier insurgency could be really quite useful for Nato’s war aims. So useful, in fact, that foreign forces should try to encourage such behaviour.